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...armada of federal agents in the city--from the FBI to the U.S. Attorney's office to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Then they have to build professional, solid cases that will hold up in court. Finally, they must avoid handing the cases to certain local judges who have what Bernazzani calls "a warped sense of social consciousness...
...encouraged by GM's first-quarter sales of full-size SUVs. Even if gas prices continue killing the segment, the thinking goes, GM could pick up market share. They like York's presence on GM's historically wimpy board. Analysts also figure GM will pay whatever it takes to avoid a Delphi strike. With roughly 6,000 blue-collar workers expected to be left at Delphi, GM "could easily afford to compensate those employees to avoid a labor disruption," notes Prudential Financial analyst Michael Bruynesteyn. And labor bosses know a strike would be mutually assured destruction. Says industry analyst Cole...
...have observed that interns lack oversight, senior clinicians lack accountability and nurses need to be reminded to double-check medication dosages. We all make mistakes because we are human. But too many physicians avoid oversight and accountability to one another to hide their fallibility. The way to make health care as error free as possible is to ensure that no decision is made in isolation. Patient safety will not improve until doctors lead the way by openly examining what they do and how they do it--and by embracing change. RICHARD BJERKE, M.D. Pittsburgh...
...other respects, the pass/fail system would remain entirely the same. The College could still impose a limit of one pass/fail class a semester, and professors could still exercise their right to disallow pass/fail students in their classes. For those students who use the pass/fail option to avoid doing work—and we all know they exist—the ability to reverse their decision would only add to the incentive to strive for success. (Allowing the reverse, that is for students to change grades into Ps, would weaken the incentive for success...
...personal choice. The only jewelry the Tiger women can wear are three dog tags, around the wrist, neck and waist that ensure identification of even the most dismembered of bodies. The Tigers enforce a hairstyle of two plaits tied in loops across the back of the head to avoid, so they say, hair snagging on bushes during an attack. Music is limited to revolutionary songs. The photos that plastered Samandi's bedroom walls were of dead suicide bombers, not pop stars. And movies in Tiger territory were a strict diet of action flicks, both homemade efforts using real war footage...